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  1. 21st September 2013, 06:31 PM #11
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    Been upgrading my Linn system for 25 years + It gives more pleasure to my soul than a defender ever would.

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    Definitely go to an actual HiFi store. Call them before you go, tell them you budget and the sort of things you like. When you book a time they should have all the options lined up for you to try.


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    Our Yamaha gear was stolen 2 years ago. I replaced it with an Onkyo TX-NR509 mated to some Mirage speakers for 2 years. Brilliant sound and on the screen display is great when hooked up to a TV.

    I purchased this unit for the networking functions, particularly Internet radio. After 2 years of updates it finally seems stable although it does some weird things when trying to save stations.

    I doubt I'd go Onkyo again.
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    Stereo systems

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    come on down to the 'Gong to Sturmans in Crown St
    all top Quality gear with people that know what they are doing.
    they also do repairs to most systems.
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    one piece of advice though - NEVER listen to a system or component outside of your price range.
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    Quote Originally Posted by flagg View Post
    one piece of advice though - NEVER listen to a system or component outside of your price range.
    That's good advice my dream speakers cost $68k and I'd buy them tomorrow if I could
    A couple of years ago I went to a Linn music night and a guy there had spent in excess of $300k on his system
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    Hi Bazz,
    If I lived where you do, drive up and see Steve at Eastwood Hi Fi. He knows it like no other and has big range of gear at right price. Very funny guy as well. Check them out on the Web.
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    Unless you want more features, or you are not happy with your current receiver. You are probably better off getting the one you have fixed.
    IMHO a lot of the new gear is consumer rubbish and you won't find something nice until you spend at least $3k.
    Probably some of the electrolytics are drying out and just needs a good service and some replacement capacitors.
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    yes there is a correlation bewteen the watts you draw from the power point and what watts turn up at the speakers


    but usually it means nothing because most stereos get sold on the PMPO rating and not on the RMS numbers.


    have an eyeball at the wiki

    [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_power"]Audio power - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]
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    Quote Originally Posted by OffTrack View Post
    Baz,

    There is quite a bit of BS in quoted power figures.

    For example Onkyo specs for the TX-NR525 (which JB Hifi sell) show figures of 80w per channel for 2 channels driven with 0.7% harmonic distortion, so you won't get anywhere near the same output with all channels driven. They also list a headline dynamic power figure of 100W in to 8ohm with 1 channel driven.

    Sony will probably do something similar with their power specs.

    If you can let me know what models you were looking at I can dig up the spec sheets and give you a better idea of what shenanigans are being played

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    Thanks Paul, the Onkyo 525 you quoted and the Sony STRDN840, these were the 2 we looked at in JB, I'm not sure but I imagine these are middle of the road type gear.

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    Hello Baz,

    This will be a bit of a trek from the deep south but the people at Hi-Fi Trader in Newtown are worth "tugging-the-ears-of".

    I've bought a bit of gear from them over the years. They are good at advising on putting together matched components that aren't all gold-plated and valve-amped.
    hELLO Mahn, good to hear from you, I think we looked at them all those years ago for our current Amp, but we got it from a store in Marrickville instead, they beat their price.

    Quote Originally Posted by jerryd View Post
    Been upgrading my Linn system for 25 years + It gives more pleasure to my soul than a defender ever would.

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    Thank, will check them out.

    Quote Originally Posted by Modelsp View Post
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    come on down to the 'Gong to Sturmans in Crown St
    all top Quality gear with people that know what they are doing.
    they also do repairs to most systems.
    Sturman Electronics - Home

    cheers
    Paul
    Hi Paul, have walked past them a few times when in the gong, I may just drop in soon, thanks.



    Thanks again everyone, we have thought of getting our current Amp looked at, it is so well matched to our speakers(Syntax) with Yamaha speakers for the surround sound, I think we need to look at other other than to ones we have been looking at, we are looking at Amps that were the same price as we paid 25yrs ago, and I think we need to go up in price to get what we have now, that might require saving a bit more money than we have budgeted for.

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